RE: [OT?]

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

Or alternatively chuck a ?20 ATA133 card in a spare slot and give
everything
its own IDE channel ... that's what I did and it works *GREAT*!!!!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Willoughby [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 September 2003 14:07
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT?]
>
>
> Hi Tim,
> Putting DVD/CD on the same channel will slow down disks and it is
> impossible/unreliable doing on the fly recordings on the same
> channel so the answer is to use your disk to buffer the recording
> and not use on the fly recording. To be honest on the fly
> recording is always a bit dodgy and for the slight increase in
> time that offloading to disk incurrs it is worth it.
>
> R's
> Ian
>
>
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: Tim Fletcher [mailto:timfletcher@xxxxxxx]
> 	Sent: Thu 25/09/2003 13:28
> 	To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> 	Cc:
> 	Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT?]
>
>
>
> 	I am thinking of reconfiguring my main PC and have doubts
> about the IDE organisation.  I am getting conflicting advice -
> Plays DVD/Music etc as well as handling Internet/network
> traffic/Video Editing etc.
>
> 	2 IDE HDD - 1x IDE DVD Reader 1 x DVD Writer
>
> 	Current arrangement
> 	 Primary Channel
> 	    Master Maxtor HDD - Drives (C:)  (F:)
> 	    Slave Seagate HDD Drive (D:)
> 	Secondary Channel
> 	    Master LG DVD-ROM (G:)
> 	    Slave Pioneer DVD-RW 105 (H:)
>
> 	The Seagate drive might be bounced for a 120Gb if I do the reconfig.
> 	Nero won't let me copy on the fly because the 2 DVDs are on
> the same IDE channel, but won't putting a DVD drive on an IDE
> channel with a HDD slow down the IDE transfer between HDDs?
>
> 	Any comments/suggestions???
>
> 	Thanks Tim.
>
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